We Visit the St Louis Zoo- the Best Free Zoo in the US? - Confessions of a Theme Park Worker
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2019
- We finally made it to the Saint Louis Zoo, a large, gorgeous, and (would you believe) FREE zoo? It's time to see some animals, get up close to some mantas, check out the birds- including one hilarious one- and seeing all that the zoo has to offer.
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Great memories of this zoo. I live 45 mins from the city. Getting up early to get into the free zones, we called it, we just had the children’s zoo and a bird feeding enclosed huge area. The staff is so kind and from what I see, heard and experience those animals are so well cared for. Forest Park is all around an amazing place!
I also recommend Grant's Farm, also free except for parking.
Hahah that reminds me of school everyone in the hallway talking and blocking
The squid in the atrium torments me to this day. Saw it as a 3 year old way back in the mid 90's and I still can't go swimming.
Great zoo though!
Thanks so much for sharing! Going to St Louis in July for the first time. I think we may go to the zoo.
And Grant's form is free to get in from the former owners of Anheuser-Busch good place to go to and you get one free drink of beer.
Yes it's the best. Saint Louis Zoo is awesome!
This is really, really cool! What a beautiful zoo!
the elephant at 6:25 is Raja. The first elephant born there. He's very well known and gets a big birthday celebration every year and now has several children (unfortunately the last one, and his first son, born in July, had to be put down because he was sick :( ) . Raja is the only male there so he kind of stands out. Didn't see him my last trek (fourth time in a month because it's convenient living right across the highway), but I saw two of his children. Kind of stood out because they were definitely NOT full grown!.
I haven’t been to the zoo in 6 years and we’re going today!!
I am so stoked and we’re going to the same zoo (our local zoo)
Commenting a year late but here just to say that street parking around the zoo in Forest Park, where the zoo's located, is always free whatever time of day. I think whoever said to get there early was more talking about how it can be hard to find a spot nearby the zoo (but not impossible!) so it's best to get there early. Even then I've never had to street park more than maybe a couple minute's walk away. I'm from St. Louis and have always loved the zoo! (and everything else about Forest Park)
Ok that crow was clearly confused as to what bird he was 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔! Crow or duck?
It’s a she.
Looks Awesome!, I’ll probably never get to Missouri but nice tour.
I live in St. Louis and we're spoiled by the Zoo and all of Forest Park!
How cool! The family is hoping to visit a buddy in Missouri this summer. We'll have to see how close he lives and have a side trip! Thank you for sharing a part of your day with us!
Was fun to see the zoo again. I'm from Springfield and my family is still there, but I moved away when I was 3 and hadn't seen the St. Louis Zoo since. I was thrilled to see that it is still free. I wish all zoo's were.
I know it is a challenge for them to fund it. Last year I believe they put in a small sales tax increase in the area to help fund it.
@@SirWillow do you know if there is a way to donate to it. Wouldn't be much but if we all chipped in a little I'm sure it would help.
Absolutely! If you go to their website, www.stlzoo.org/ look for the "Give" tab, which has a bunch of options. Or look at the "Membership" which will help them, but also give you free or reduced cost admission to a lot of other zoos around the country.
@@SirWillow You are correct. It’s a special tax.
Love how much you guys appreciate the alpacas! A few of my relatives run an alpaca farm and they're now up to 17! Beautiful animals and pretty friendly, too. They actually have one that is a certified therapy animal and does school and nursing home visits.
Thanks for showing us everything!! I’m going to St. Louis on Friday and we’re going to this zoo on Saturday!! It looks awesome!
Welcome to St. Louis! Hope you enjoy your time here
The St. Louis zoo is my favorite zoo. I was there last year and even my boys loved it. My favorite part is the Hippos and the polar bear. Also alot of exhibits at the Science Center are free.
I am also a volunteer docent at this zoo. Did you know that what makes up the barriers at the bird house is piano wire? It’s almost completely invisible to cameras. There was actually one time where one of the birds flew out and the keepers had me keep people back until they caught it.
We were there several years ago very nice very clean, glad it's still free
Wish I could aford the people who did the rivers edge to come do some landscapeing
Now this may have changed but when I visited the Cleveland Zoo it was $10 admission and free parking. I think that is a better deal than St Louis.
I'm from St Louis. The reason why this is the only free zoo in the United States. The county and the City taxes are high to support the zoo, also the zoo has corporate sponsors with their logos in the zoo. They remodeled the zoo about 10 years ago. I've been to other zoos in other states was not impressed. They had good ideals but not good. St Louis zoo in Forest Park plenty of land and the same spot of the 1904 world's Fair. I feel they should expand the zoo with all that property that they have in Forest Park for Safari elephants rhinos gazelles and making bigger than more just small units of animals but it is always up to date and clean. They have a train that goes around the the zoo. Like I said the only problem that I have with the zoo is they put too much in one spot instead of in expanding the zoo and put more in to the zoo more property because it's all by taxes so they cancut off the streets in the park and make more land for the zoo because the zoo is the most profit in the Forest Park where the zoo is at. They have the art museum that's the only building that's standing there from 1904 world's Fair. And in front of the art museum they call it art Hill where people can slide down the hill to the boat ride pond. Kansas City zoo had potential but it really sucked, same as Las Vegas and then you have to pay to get into the zoo that was so high and it was unmanaged property very disappointing.
wow so place lots of to see there :)
Very cool. Go Chiefs !
I live in missouri to 😮👏👍😁😀
They let you know what time they feed the animals And then they have the animals do tricks while they feed them.
Love the zoo My family came here long before I moved to STL metro. Should do Grants Farm too. I know you go early enough you can park for free on the roads around the zoo but depending on how many people you have in the group you can ride to the zoo on Metro and avoid parking fees. Btw the History Museum and the Art Museum are free to most of the exhibits that are also located in Forrest Park where the zoo is located I often ride the metro to the park and then bike around where I'm going
I've been going to the zoo ever since I was a little kid. If you don't mind walking, you won't even need to park in the zoo parking lot. There's plenty of places to park around Forest Park
in Peterborough Ontario Canada, their Zoo called .... wait for it the Peterborough Zoo is also free.. its small but very cool , the train is only $2, good size a 10 min ride..
As an avid knitter, I too, am a huge fan of alpacas ♡♡.
One day I'm gonna go to the st louis zoo it looks so cool
I love St louis Zoo
Welcome to my fair city!
I would definitely suggest parking on the street for free. Some days you might have a little bit of a walk but during the week, it's not too bad. The last time I was at the zoo we parked like, 20 feet from the entrance. The only time I've ever parked in the parking lot was when I've been with someone handicapped. Forest Park isn't as scary as people would like to believe. Just lock your doors and don't leave anything valuable in sight ~just in case.~ I spend as much time as I possibly can in Forest Park and I've NEVER had any kind of issue. There's been several times I've accidentally left my car unlocked for several hours and everything was still exactly as I had left it when I got back.
Forest Park has amazing security so I never worry. :)
Definitely weird to see and hear a gasoline "steam" locomotive. Lol
Not as strange as you might think. There are 2 components to steam engines: the boiler, with the water in it that makes the steam, and the burner/ heat elements that heat the water to make the steam. Many people think of coal or wood as the fuel that does it- in which case it's a large furnace compartment on the engine. But many engines will change that over to a diesel or gas burner system to heat the water. That's actually how most modern steam engines operated. It can be fairly easy to tell- if it's a dark colored smoke coming out of the flue, it's probably coal. If it's white, then it's probably gas or diesel.
@@SirWillow Yep. I guess pretty much the same on the diesel side as well why my road's Alco RSD-15 produces black exhaust smoke and the GP40-3 often times white smoke.
I love this zoo, but I walk there from a different parking lot
You should go to Columbus zoo it’s ahhhhmazzing
The reason it's "free" is because if you live in the st.louis county I believe you get taxed a little bit and the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District (ZMD
Literally the art museum is right next to the zoo you should’ve checked it out it’s very beautiful
I would have loved to if we'd had time. But we only had 2 days- one for the zoo and one for Six Flags.
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well come visit again 😊
Could you record the holy land exprenice in Flordia please?
It's been many years since I was there, and I don't anticipate any visits in the next few years.
Como park zoo is $3 St Paul MN
its a quicking crow lol
I’m going thru the hardest decision in my life right now because my crew is deciding if we want to go to Lincoln Park Zoo or Bronx Zoo, And I suggested This one or Philly. I will probably want to come to this place, because this zoo has elephants, polar bears & bonobos But philly doesn’t.
Trying to decide which zoo to go to is the hardest decision of your life? Wow, I wish I had such a hard life. :-P
Great video! Another good free zoo is The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
Was there a reptile house?
yes, but we didn't go in it this time. :-)
Did you ride the train ?
did you watch the video? :-) Your answer is in the video itself.
But in case you missed the short segment, this will probably be fun for you: ruclips.net/video/rgYD6ZDiDWU/видео.html
Well you saw the train
I thought only
@@SirWillow Captain Kangaroo rode on that.